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UK pub asks Muslim to remove “Islam” hoodie, hate crime investigation begins

Jul 25, 2016 8:22 am By Robert Spencer

As jihad attacks on innocent civilians in Western countries are now a near-daily occurrence, this story about an “Islamophobic hate crime” in Britain is particularly obscene. A Muslim is asked to remove his “Islam” hoodie, and now those who made the request are under investigation by a ham-fisted and authoritarian British government that refuses to stop and consider the question of why, exactly, the hoodie made pub patrons uncomfortable in the first place: because of jihad terrorism, not “racism” or “bigotry.”

This story also shows the reality behind “hate crime” statistics trumpeted in the US by the likes of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and in the UK by the discredited but nevertheless still powerful Tell Mama UK: this incident will almost certainly go into Tell Mama’s statistics, and will thus help create the impression that Muslims in the UK are routinely brutalized and discriminated against. That the reality was as innocuous as this will be obscured by the wide dissemination of the bald statistic that Muslims in the UK were the “victims of x number of hate crimes,” without explaining that most of them were nothing more than a few shouted insults (in which case I am the victim of multiple hate crimes) and, in this case, a polite request made by people rendered jittery about Islam by nothing more or less than the violent actions and declarations of imminent conquest made by Muslims themselves.

Nurul Islam could have acknowledged those jitters as understandable, removed the hoodie, and gone about his business. Instead, he is now international news — which also demonstrates that the mainstream media is so avid to report “Islamophobic hate crimes” but has so little substantial to go on that it is reduced to lamenting about the dreaded hoodie removal of hate.

Remember also that this is the BBC, which is so solicitous of Muslims that it removed the Munich shooter’s Muslim name from its reporting on that incident. That’s the reality, not “Islamophobia.”

Islam hoodie

“Stevenage teacher asked to remove ‘Islam’ hoodie by pub,” BBC, July 20, 2016:

A teacher was asked to remove his hoodie because it had the word “Islam” on the back – which is his surname – and was upsetting pub customers.

Nurul Islam, 32, was wearing his school sweatshirt, which all have surnames on, outside the Coach and Horses in Newgate Street, near Hertford, on Friday.

A member of staff said it was upsetting people after the Nice attack, he said.

A police hate crime officer is investigating what happened. The pub would not comment.

The technology teacher was waiting for a group of pupils from The Thomas Alleyne Academy, in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, who were on a Duke of Edinburgh assignment.

“A staff member came outside and asked if I could I take off my jumper because it was making some customers feel uncomfortable ‘after what happened last night’,” Mr Islam said.

“I didn’t know quite what to say, and at first I didn’t link what he’d said with the lorry attack in France, but when it sank in I was shocked.”
‘Islamophobia and bigotry’

He went back to his car, leaving another teacher to wait for the pupils.

“I was being discriminated against because of my surname so I was left really upset after the incident.

“We all have surnames on the backs of our hoodies, which is the responsible thing to do.”

Mr Islam added: “I’m not a practising Muslim but I am a Muslim.

“It makes me feel terrible that my name is the cause of such contention when all it means is peace.

“If I had the word ‘peace’ on there, would he still have asked me to leave?”

Miqdaad Versi, the assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “It’s shocking and very worrying to see this growth in Islamophobia and bigotry.

“We need to really move beyond this, and the problem that we’re facing is this type of attitude seems to be getting more prevalent in society and more socially acceptable.”

Hertfordshire Police said: “A specialist hate crime officer is investigating to establish whether offences have been committed.”

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  1. Moses says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:25 am

    He should’ve also removed all his clothes so that we can see whether he had a suicide bomb.You never know with this Muslims.

    • Robert Chip Korngiebel says

      Jul 27, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      I believe if he had shown them his I.D.It would have been different out come. BUT NO because they asked him to remove his jacket. He files but $hit. Yet here in America your opinions are becoming censored. Soon we will have the thought police out.You can’t even quote the koran to prove your piont. Because it said to be hate speech. Have any of these liberals lived in a islamic controlled country. No that’s why they live here. So they can live their G-Dless lives without fearing stoning, chopped of hands, being thrown from the top of tall building. Yet those of us who see and read the truth of islam. We are silenced.

      • Robert Chip Korngiebel says

        Jul 27, 2016 at 8:14 pm

        I believe if he had shown them his I.D.It would have been different out come. BUT NO because they asked him to remove his jacket. He files bull $hit. Yet here in America your opinions are becoming censored. Soon we will have the thought police out.You can’t even quote the koran to prove your piont. Because it said to be hate speech. Have any of these liberals lived in a islamic controlled country. No that’s why they live here. So they can live their G-Dless lives without fearing stoning, chopped of hands, being thrown from the top of tall building. Yet those of us who see and read the truth of islam. We are silenced.

  2. Angemon says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:27 am

    A teacher was asked to remove his hoodie because it had the word “Islam” on the back – which is his surname – and was upsetting pub customers.

    You mean that the censoring as not to offend other people only goes one way? Gee, what a shocker…

    • Westman says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      For a teacher, this guy seems to be a dunce. After these terrorist attacks, removing the hoodie protects HIM.

      Lets imagine a hispanic, named Jesus, walking through a UK “no-go” Muslim area in a hoody with Jesus in big letters, or, someone named Israel, with Israel on the hoodie? Just what would one expect to happen?

      • Wellington says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 1:45 pm

        Yeah, imagine those scenarios, Westman. When I was teaching I told my college students, many of whom were Christian, that if they ever visit a Muslim country, don’t wear a crucifix necklace because in Islamic theology Jesus wasn’t crucified, rather a substitute was crucified in his place. Thus such a person wearing a crucifix would be engaging in blasphemy according to Mo’s creed and we know how well Muzzies take anything that contradicts what Islam says.

  3. efoc says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:29 am

    “A specialist hate crime officer….”

    That very title is an utter joke.

    Two hundred years from now (assuming Britain still exists), Britons will look at this and think, “what the f**k did this person do with their life?”. How could we have succumbed to such stinking stupidity and enormous insanity to have ever employed an individual like this? What was WRONG with us back in 2016?

    • CrossWare says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 9:53 am

      The future citizen of Britain will not look back! He will look forward into the a*hole of the person in front of him as he getting ready for his prayer. The Britain Caliphate will become Islamic by 2060 due to hijra (migration and out of control breeding – which will not stop just because England stepped out of EU in 2016). His citizens will know nothing of the past as the only books will be allowed the Quran and the Hadith. This is how civilization ends there… 🙁

      • Zammana says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 3:27 pm

        “The Britain Caliphate will become Islamic by 2060…” 2060 is the year Sir Isaac Newton calculated as the date “the end would come.”

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 26, 2016 at 1:30 pm

        Why is CrossWare here counseling despair and surrender?

    • Sab says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 2:21 pm

      Actually your pony “should Britain still exist” is the point. When the Muslims take over all history prior to that will be purged.

    • Bindon Blood says

      Jul 26, 2016 at 5:58 pm

      The way things are developing it is doubtful that we will be writing history. This nonsense with “hate crime” , islamophobia, Islam is a religion of peace,rewriting history in favour of Islamic golden age myth is part of a meticulously instituted series of action plans by the OIC,the EU and the UN to

      Insert Islam into Western culture ,fully formed and unrestricted .Multi culturalism was designed to bring Islam to the West ,not to assimilate because Muslims are forbidden to assimilate into Western culture,but to allow them to take root in the West whilst still practising Islam in it’s entirety.

  4. Stephen Curran says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:29 am

    Mr Islam added: “I’m not a practising Muslim but I am a Muslim” So there is NIL difference is that the point? Or Not? A Muslim is a follower of Islam or not? Or is a Muslim someone brought up in the faith of Islam?
    A Muslim is therefore what?

  5. Keith says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:33 am

    If a muslim cashier in a supermarket refuses to serve me pork or alcohol because it goes against his/her religious beliefs will that now be counted as a hate crime.

    Somehow I doubt it.

  6. sencit says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Poor darling! Perhaps he should change his name to ‘Thinskin’.

  7. David says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:49 am

    And he just can’t understand what would disturb “normal” people?
    Walking into the neighborhood pub with the word islam on his back?
    They don’t understand, but it’s like having “Child of SATAN ” ON your back!

    • Myrtle Linder says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 1:25 pm

      Exactly!!!!!

  8. Nomis says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:50 am

    “It makes me feel terrible that my name is the cause of such contention when all it means is peace.”

    “If I had the word ‘peace’ on there, would he still have asked me to leave?”

    Tut tut tut. He knows only too well that Islam means submission. Taqiyya at its finest.

    • Myrtle Linder says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 1:29 pm

      JESUS CHRIST is the EVERLASTING SYMBOL OF PEACE, LOVE, KINDNESS, CARING, GRACIOUSNESS…….

      • Champ says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 3:53 pm

        Indeed, He *is*!

  9. george whyte says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:59 am

    check out the comments on the original story..

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3701431/Muslim-teacher-called-Islam-ordered-barman-Coach-Horses-near-Hertford-hoodie-it.html

  10. Charli Main says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:03 am

    Challenging Muslims or speaking the truth about Islam will not be tolerated in Sharia May’s Britianistan.

    Any resistance to the Muslim take over of Britain will be crushed, with the full approval of Westminster, by the British Police AKA Islam’s sock puppets..

  11. duh swami says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:05 am

    It’s supposed to say, ‘radical’ Islam…the only kind there is…

  12. John A. Marre says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:05 am

    England is sipping the poison that will kill it. It is so afraid of offending the people who wake up in the morning already offended that it is letting them have their way in everything.

  13. marc says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:07 am

    lol “If I had the word ‘peace’ on there, would he still have asked me to leave?”
    no, but it had the true translation of islam, “submission”, that might have been cause for concern, that he was part of a bdsm couple.

    • dragaozao says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 10:16 am

      Yes! You do have a serious point on this, although funny.

  14. george whyte says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:08 am

    ok so this is not a hate speach then.

    ‘I am prepared to take lives’: Dutch Imam sparks outrage by saying he is ready to kill and die for Islam

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3706676/I-prepared-lives-Dutch-Imam-sparks-outrage-saying-ready-kill-die-Islam.html#ixzz4FQR3fdNN

  15. Mo says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:11 am

    On the one hand, I do not agree with the very idea of “hate crimes”. All crimes are based in hatred. No one attacks, robs, rapes or kills someone because they love them.

    On the other hand, this guy knew EXACTLY what he was doing. He wanted to frighten people and then play the “victim of Islamophobia” card.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 12:08 pm

      Concur.

  16. Jerry says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:02 am

    People have a right to be offended by “Islam.” It’s like a decked out Neo Nazi walking into the Holocaust museum, there’s bound to be a critical reaction. It’s natural and normal for people to be repulsed by that which threatens their life and peace. But we’re not allowed to react normally to islamic hate and murder. We must sit quietly while our neighborhoods die, our people get raped and murdered. That seems to be the new norm, we “infidels” can’t have feelings or intelligent thoughts about islam. That would be so unsharia like. We can’t be offended, or fearful, or angry, or express our disapproval, or be rational, or outraged over rape and murder, we must be sheep willing to die for a sick ideology. Our political and power elite think they can smooth things over by ignoring the ugly truth about “The religion of death.” But citizens of the world are showing they’re not willing to keep quiet about that murderous cult. For civilized people “Islam” has become synonymous with “Nazi,” and for good reason. The kind of crime and murder committed for Islam in recent years is like Nazism in substance and magnitude. The “offense” here isn’t that a few patrons may have pointed at “Islam” on a shirt. The real offense is that our leaders and media are working so hard to please and appease an ideology that your average child knows is evil.

    I’m encouraged and made happy by the response of those patrons. It shows good morals and love of humanity in the act. God bless them, even though I’m an atheist. 😉

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      Well said Jerry.

  17. linnte says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:06 am

    Someone needs to tell this guy he is not a Muslim if he is not “practicing” his religion. And he is either Pakistani, or British, or Afghani or whatever, by nationality. (You SEE Mr Obama, words DO make a difference.) A non practicing Muslim is an apostate and no longer a Muslim!

    • Hindu American says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 4:07 pm

      A muslim walks into a pub….wait! How’s that?

      • linnte says

        Jul 26, 2016 at 1:52 am

        Exactly!

        • jayell says

          Jul 27, 2016 at 6:36 am

          I think the usual excuse would be ‘I can come here because Allah’s asleep’ – at least, that’s what a group of drunken muzzies in a New York bar came up with! So they knew what time He went to bed? Or maybe one of the 72 virgins up in their Paradise (every cloud has a red light!) slipped him a pill or put a shot of the hard stuff in his hala cocoa?

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 4:55 pm

      Mohamed walks into pub and orders pint of ale.
      Barman seves and watches him drink in a couple of gulps, “Thirty work, this killing and raping” says Mo.

      He then orders another, plus a ham sandwich.

      Barman serves again, then says”Excuse me sir, but aren’t you mohamed, leader of islam and all the muslims?”

      “Yes” he replies.

      “Then doesn’t your religion forbid you from drinking alcohol and eating pork?”

      Moham, thinks for a moment then replies.

      “You call that a fucking religion?”

      • linnte says

        Jul 26, 2016 at 1:52 am

        Hahahahahahaha!

  18. dragaozao says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:07 am

    Is “islamophobia” on the rise? Maybe. But that’s because islamofascism is causing it. Not the lack of human decency in normal people.

    • Jerry says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 10:14 am

      That’s right, instead of blaming the evil cause they’re blaming the normal, healthy reaction. I’ve come to realize, the leftists and apologists protecting Islam are as guilty as the terrorists doing the killing.

  19. Frank Courtney says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:23 am

    He said “I’m not a practising Muslim but I am a Muslim”.

    What exactly does he mean by this?

    Some possibilities:
    1 He doesn’t attend a mosque.
    2 He doesn’t bother with banging his head on the mat five times a day.
    3 He doesn’t give to the zakat racket.
    4 He eats bacon sandwiches all day long during Ramadan.
    5 He doesn’t subscribe to Hajj Tours.
    If any of the above apply he’s not living up to the name (ugh) on back of his jacket and as an apostate he can look forward to having his throat cut anytime soon.
    Meanwhile, looking on the bright side:
    6 He might not blow himself (and others) up.
    7 His wife may escape a beating.
    8 His daughter(s) avoid(s) the possibilities of FGM and “honour” killing.
    9 He does have a job and is not claiming (Jizya) state benefits.
    10 He’ll refrain from raping young girls.
    Other Jihad Watchers will be able to add more… feel free…

    However, he obviously is a practitioner of stealth jihad by causing this fuss, aided and abetted by the hopelessly PC police and media, thereby adding a few drips to the stinking river of Islamisation already flowing through my once great country. So he is a “practising Muslim” after all and the quoted sentence is taqiyya.

    • Keys says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 1:50 pm

      Frank, good question! What does he mean that he is not a practicing Muslim?
      Adding to your list of possibilities:

      11. just “taqiyyaing” you
      12. I am a sleeper cell
      13. I am not “radicalized” but will be when I decide to practice

      • Frank Courtney says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 6:13 pm

        Good additions Keys. Cheers, Frank.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 26, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      He said “I’m not a practising Muslim but I am a Muslim”.
      …………………

      He’s Muslim enough to practice fake Muslim victimhood, though…

  20. mortimer says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:39 am

    Mr. Islam said, “I’m not a practising Muslim”. Perhaps, not, but then, perhaps so, as was the case in Nice with Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a very profane, non-practising Muslim who became an overnight jihad-terrorist. Who would guess that Bouhlel would turn so suddenly into a terrorist?

    Does Nurul Islam think people can read his mind?

  21. Judi says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:48 am

    Practising muslim or not, he’s still a muslim. What’s he doing in a pub which sells alcohol? Seems they are only practisng muslims when it suits them

    • Jerry says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 10:52 am

      Seems they are only practisng muslims when it suits them.

      Yeah, like when they want to cut off an infidel’s head or rape women and children.

  22. Luke says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 11:01 am

    It was an unfortunate mix up. What is frightening is that the guy thought Islam meant peace; and that he had no concept of the reason that people might be afraid of Islam right now.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 26, 2016 at 1:49 pm

      I don’t believe he thinks Islam means peace–just that he can palm this Taqiyya off on the ‘filthy Infidels’.

  23. ninetyninepct says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 11:17 am

    “We all have surnames on the backs of our hoodies, which is the responsible thing to do.”

    Bullshit. Responsible for what, so that his terrorist buddies would know who not to shoot or attack with a knife?

  24. Jay Boo says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 11:19 am

    Islam spelled backwards is Mal Si.
    In French that would mean (Sick) and an emphatic (Yes !!!!)

    In backwoods areas outside of Orlando that would translate as “Bulls Eye”

    • linnte says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 7:46 pm

      And in Spanish it translates as “bad yes”.

      • Angemon says

        Jul 26, 2016 at 11:36 am

        “Mal” is not “bad” – that would be “malo” – “but “evil”.

  25. miriamrove says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 11:50 am

    It is amazing how muslims are delusional. I am telling you Islam causes some kind of virus or bacteria in the brain. muslims are blowing people up around the globe every day and this idiot feels discriminated against? M

  26. Mong says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Serious question: why is almost every western government supporting the islamisation of the west? Some people go down the conspiratorial route of one world government etc. but seriously, politicians are not stupid. They know what’s going on to a greater extent than the average citizen. So why are they supporting this? Interested to know your opinions.

    • somehistory says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 12:25 pm

      I believe that islam is the wild beast from satan which was foretold to make an image of itself and force all of the people of earth to bow down in worship or be killed. (Revelation 13).
      The governments of earth are, in actuality, controlled by satan and his demonic horde and the men and women who are in positions of (limited) power are only doing what the demons wish them to do and they go along to remain in power.

    • dts says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 2:46 pm

      In my opinion, it’s a mix of trying to back what appears to be the “strong horse”, demographically speaking and with regards to numbers of muslims worldwide, with perhaps an attempt at reverse psychology (refusing to “give in to fear” by allowing an ever more visible Islamic presence in the west in the face of ever increasing Islamic terror, worldwide) that is backfiring badly, with a generous pinch of oikophobia (fear and loathing of the “home culture”) in the ideology of the left-leaning politicians generally in power in the west, and the whole mess seasoned to the taste of the various countries that make up The West with political correctness, also with a factor here of trying to outdo and one up each other’s virtue signals and then ending up stuck, having to actually enact policies meant only to signal that “virtue” which have little practical value at best and are stark madness at worst.

      Been doing a lot of wondering about this myself in the recent past – I’m not a conspiracy nut, nor religious (though that passage “somehistory” is referring to does sound a lot like “islam” for all that), so this is what is shaping up to be my own explanation to myself at any rate. Hope all you posters are having a pleasant Monday 🙂

    • linnte says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 7:51 pm

      Mong, Info with the One World Government theory. Bring in millions of Muslims, break down the economy from welfare, add Muslim Jihad, get people scared to death, get people fighting each other over the “Islam a religion of peace” issue, divide us racially and spiritually, start Civil War, bring in the troops, subdue all the populations, take control of all the populations, bring in the One World Government to bring peace and viola! 1984 accomplished.

      • linnte says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 7:52 pm

        Not info the One World Government, but I go for. Darned spell check!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 26, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      Western ‘leaders’ are suffering from the same denial and “political correctness” that all too many ordinary people have, as well.

  27. somehistory says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    He wore the shirt on purpose, knowing full well about the recent (and on-going) attacks in countries nearby.
    And yet, he feigns *shock*…”i was shocked”…which is supposed to mean he is *innocent* of any thoughts of scaring, frightening, upsetting, terrorizing anyone. Supposedly if he had such thoughts, he wouldn’t have been *shocked.*

    This is the corker: “so I was left really upset after …”
    He was *really upset*….but still alive, uninjured and fully functional…so much that he could return to his car and then blab, blab, blab and cause the innocent people who had cause to be *upset* and afraid to be investigated. Which was his goal.
    And his claim that he doesn’t *practice* is a big, fat lie. He was “practicing” when he wore the shirt and pretended it means something it doesn’t and intentionally upset members of the public.

  28. Marty says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 2:11 pm

    A pub in the UK can ask anyone to remove offensive clothing or get out.
    As a teenager I was banned by 2 pub because of my clothes.
    The police are behaving stupidly & possibly illegally

    • Wellington says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      They’re behaving stupidly all right, Marty, but, sadly, I don’t think illegally considering how freedom of speech has been restricted under the guise of hate speech legislation from Tony Blair’s Prime Ministership onwards. Being an American, I am not that familiar with current British law so if anyone who does know British law can expand upon what I have written, it would be appreciated.

  29. Gerald Mucci says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 2:31 pm

    The name of this site should be renamed from “Jihad Watch” to “Western Surrender Watch.”

  30. Champ says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    “…British government that refuses to stop and consider the question of why, exactly, the hoodie made pub patrons uncomfortable in the first place: because of jihad terrorism, not ‘racism’ or ‘bigotry.'”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Precisely!

  31. Hindu American says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    “If I had the word ‘peace’ on there, would he still have asked me to leave?”

    With a face like that, if he had “Peace” written on his hoodie, I would be suspicious and still call the cops.

  32. Champ says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 4:18 pm

    A member of staff said it was upsetting people after the Nice attack, he said.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Of course. But expecting a muslim to be aware or even sensitive to *why* it was upsetting people is expecting the impossible, and I think he wore it just so he WOULD upset these folks.

  33. scherado says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    Someone with expendable cash ought to hire the most ruthless, unscrupulous lawyer to take the case

  34. WorkingClassPost says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    The publican might have been justifiably worried that he could be attacked for serving alcohol to muzzies.

    That’s what will be happening soon enough at this rate.

    Next thing will be demands to stop selling drink and pork products, to make pubs more muzzie-friendly..

  35. jayell says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    “Miqdaad Versi, the assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “It’s shocking and very worrying to see this growth in Islamophobia and bigotry. We need to really move beyond this, and the problem that we’re facing is this type of attitude seems to be getting more prevalent in society and more socially acceptable…..”

    So here we go again, a muslim ”secretary general’ (big term, that) of (yet another!) islamic ‘Council’ (or ‘Commission’, or ‘Parliament’, or whatever), up on his high horse, pontificating about what is or is not generally acceptable in the UK and – as boringly usual – dragging out the ‘B’ word (‘bigotry’) but (a) doesn’t seem to know what it really means, because it’s totally irrelevant in this instance, and (b) seems blissfully unaware that HE is in fact the bigot by narrowmindedly failing to consider the circumstances of this case and instead only trying to push his own myopic, vaguely paranoid but offensively arrogant and self-centred point of view. And isn’t it also about time that these self-proclaimed, intellectually-challenged official gas-bags learned (they been told often enough!) that the term ‘islamophobia’ is the most ridiculously contrived inaccurate nonsense that’s been cobbled together to avoid accepting that people in the civilised world, having unfortunately got to know what islam’s all about, reject it as a load of morally-bankrupt, mindless antediluvian twaddle.What Versi clearly does not understand, or perhaps doesn’t WANT tio understand, is that the Great British Public has actually been moving TOWARDS this increasingfly enlightened position (no doubt HE wouldn’t see it as ‘enlightened’!) as a result of the education of close contact with islam, having previously existed in a state of blissful ignorance when it seemed OK to assume that islam was force for good, like Christianity and Judaism. Versi should realise that if we ‘move on from this’ in the direction we’re already travelling, he and his co-religionist chums are going to be in for a rougher ride – permanently. And in case, who is the ‘we’ of which Versi speaks? He must be speaking about his fellow-muslims, because the Great British Public most certainly does NOT identify with Versi and his motley friends. Does he realise this? It seems like he doesn’t, but If he does, then of course it would be because we (us Kuffar) are all bigots, natujrally. It couldn’e be that he’s totally out-of-touch because he’s irretrievably stuck up his own ivory minaret.

    There is also one point where Versi demonstrates his lamentable ignorance of British society and British customs and institutions. The Landlord of a British pub is legally responsible for maintaining an orderly and lawful establishment and protecting his customers from anyone and anything that may cause problems or ignite trouble. He (She) therefore has almost dictatorial powers to deal with customers who are seen to cause possible offence to others in the establishment, and this might include ordering them to modify their behaviour in some way (which could include articles of clothing) and extends to ejecting them from the place and banning them for as long as the Landlord feels fit. No one – but NO ONE – argues with the Lordlord of a British pub – or else! But Versi, if he knew about any of this (doubtful!) would probably claim that a muslim has a right to do whatever he (she) wants, and is not to be constrained by the bigotted sensibilities of the Kuffar. In which case, Versi will be in for another rude awakening.

  36. Ashley says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    I have mixed feelings on this one…

    It was not only insensitive of Mr. Islam to wear the hoodie, he should have further understood that it was taunting and menacing to do so on the heels of the Nice attack. HOWEVER, Muslim does happen to be his surname…an unfortunate one, but his surname all the same. Surnames have long been plastered on the back of sport jerseys . Just glad Nurul’s last name wasn’t “Jihad.”

    The fact that he has reported this incident is what troubles me most. It sounds like he was politely asked to remove his hoodie due to heightened sensitivities, and instead of complying in a spirit of resigned understanding, he played the discrimination card.

    Was he looking for trouble? I don’t know. Others in his company bore their surnames on their hoodies. I have a friend, Peter Christian. His soccer hoodie bore the name “Christian”. Today, that would be a very dangerous hoodie to don in many parts of the world (including here in the USA).

    So do we now have to have a disclaimer on jerseys that announce “MY SURNAME IS CHISTIAN? MY SURNAME IS ISLAM?”

    A slippery slope…

    It isn’t my intention to come off as contrarian. I think Nurul Islam should have realized his hoodie would have made folks nervous.

    But I can’t condemn the dude for being born with a shitty surname and a sense of pride for owning it.

    We have to pick our battles carefully…

    • Champ says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      “HOWEVER, Muslim does happen to be his surname” …

      Ashley, his surname is “islam”, not muslim.

      From the headline:

      “A teacher was asked to remove his hoodie because it had the word “Islam” on the back – which is his surname – and was upsetting pub customers.”

      No big deal, since “muslim” and “islam” mean the same thing …

      Take care! 🙂

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 26, 2016 at 2:25 pm

      If my surname were “HItler” I might expect some people to be troubled–and even threatened–by my emblazoning it across a hoodie.

  37. anno nimus says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    On hate speech and censorship:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqZydy1siI

  38. More Ham Ed says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 1:54 am

    I can only imagine the crackdowns if the pub posted a sign saying “Free Ham sandwiches to all muslims.”

  39. solange silverman says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    Oh, the irony…..

  40. gravenimage says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    UK pub asks Muslim to remove “Islam” hoodie, hate crime investigation begins
    ……………………..

    The idea that this is a “hate crime” is ludicrous.

    Meanwhile, in Germany, Mr. Islam’s coreligonists attacked people on a train with an ax, gunned down children eating at a McDonalds, and murdered a pregnant woman and her unborn child with a machete. In France, they beheaded an elderly priest.

    That is *real* hate…

  41. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    So openly endorsing global crime-gangs in public is now OK, but complaining about it isn’t?!

    What if someone were to wear a “KKK!” or “MAFIA” hoodie – I bet the treasonous racist “authorities” in the UK would be perfectly OK with that.

  42. Heather says

    Jul 28, 2016 at 10:55 am

    Robert there is no Comments section under your videos that I saw. I am so enraged after watching a NewsMax video with the NewsMax man, yourself and Nezar Hamze from CAIR. It was questioning you about the Cartoons Competition this year. I think it was with Pamela Geller.
    I was shouting so loudly at the video (excuse me). I don’t know how you keep your cool, I really don’t. I think EVERY muslim is a closet terrorist because they choose to follow the most evil person to walk the Earth. Dead Mohamad, sadist, rapist, paedophile, murderer, vile scum, satan lover.

    • Robert Spencer says

      Aug 3, 2016 at 5:44 pm

      There is certainly a comments section under that video, and many interesting comments.

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